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The Body-Control-Module is getting more and more complex. From pure turning on and off the loads to master the unit for multiple functions like exterior and interior lighting, comfort feature like seat heating. To enable such high integration on one ECU also the power switches must become smaller - and smarter! A scalable portfolio of protected switches on one hand and a portfolio handling simple parallel...

The new CMOS pseudo SRAMs (PSRAMs) from Alliance Memory combine the best features of SRAMs and DRAMs to provide designers with easy-to-use, low-power, and cost-effective memory solutions. They are available with densities from 8Mb to 128Mb in 48-ball FPBGA and 49-ball FPBGA packages at www.Rutronik24.com as of now.

Today, people spend around 90% of their time indoors, be it at home or in an office, restaurant, cinema or gym. The quality of this indoor air can be impaired significantly by harmful gases and fine dust. Maria Alejandra Salazar Martinez, Product Sales Manager Analog & Sensors at Rutronik, explains how gas sensors in smart home devices can help improve air quality.

Good news for customers of Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH: Alliance Memory, a manufacturer from the Rutronik portfolio continues to offer some of the low-power SRAMs of the CY62256 series discontinued by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Alliance Memory aims to ensure the supply of the components until 2019.